Residents of the scenic Great Ocean Road are at their wits' end after the increasingly intelligent birds learnt how to lift the lids of wheelie bins, spreading rubbish through the town of Lorne.

Residents of Lorne, on Victoria’s scenic Great Ocean Road, have been locked in a battle of wits for years now.

They’ve been fighting skirmishes with a large flock of increasingly intelligent sulphur-crested cockatoos that love lifting the lids of the town’s wheelie bins and spreading rubbish on the ground.

“What began as a simple idea became a complex and demanding project,” Mr Walls, a retired caravan park broker, explains.

Made from recycled plastic at Horsham in Victoria’s Wimmera region, the frames are screwed or pop-riveted to the wheelie bin lid to thwart entry.

“The theory is you can’t lift what you’re standing on … and in the five years we’ve had them out testing them there hasn’t been a failure that I’m aware of,” Mr Walls says.

The design has been so successful that Surf Coast Shire has spent $50,000 to buy and install 500 of the aprons on Lorne residents’ bins for free.

  • No1@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    3 months ago

    "The theory is you can’t lift what you’re standing on "

    I’m thinking, “What if they learn to grip the handles or edge, and take off?”

    I would have made a great cocky…